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1). HUTOHINSONI.

BRBEGHING FOR VEHICLES. No. 296, 94. Patented Apr. 8, 188-4.

UNITE STATES DANIEL HUTCHINSON, OF POLAND, MAINE.

BREECHING FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,694, dated April 8,1884-.

' Application filed February 4, 1884. (No modeli) To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Huronrnson,

a citizen of the United States, residing at P- land, in the county ofAndroscoggin and State of Maine, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Holdbacks or Breechings, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates toan improved'holdback or breeching in which thebreechingstrap, instead of being attached to the harness, is fastened toa device upon the wagon-shafts; and the objects of my improvements are,first, to do away with the crapper, backstrap, and breeching-straps of aharness, thereby makingless work to harness a horse; second, to leavethe muscles of the horse freeto act, thereby getting greater speed andgreater ease of traveling; and, third, to avoid accidents by thebreeching catching in the holdback-a common occurrence when the 01dbreaching is used. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of theentire device; Fig. 2, a detailed view in perspective of the breeching 4strap and the devices upon the shafts to which it is fastened; Fig. 3, aview of one of the devices upon the shafts to which the breeching-strapis attached.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The breeching-strap b reaches from shaft to shaft, and is buckled intothe holdback f, which is turned up on the end of the spring a, referredto hereinafter. The standard 6 passes through the piece of metal h,which is fastened H to the under side of the shaft to. The standard chas a thread out upon it, and is to regu-. late the height of thebreeching-strap b, and is held at its proper height by means of nutsabove and below the piece of metal h. It (the standard 6) is enlargedinto a clasp at its upper end, through which the spring 0 passes. (SeeFig. 3.) This spring 0 is a flat piece of spring-steel, one end ofwhichis fastened flatwise uponthe shaft a by the clasp g. The other endpasses the clasp upon the standard e, and is turned up into the holdbackf, as shown in Fig. 3. The spring 0 should be made sufficiently stiff toact as a brace upon the standard 6, and yet spring down or up, as thestandard is lowered or raised.

d is a small spiral spring, one end of which is fastened around thestandard 6, between the nutsi,the other end being riveted to thebreeching-strap b. The objectof the spiral spring d is to prevent thebreeching-strap b from sagging, and at the same time keep it snug to thehorse;

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secureby Letters Patent 1. In an improved breeching, the combination of thebreeching-strap, Zmvhich is buckled into the holdback f, with the spring0 and the standard a, substantially as shown, and for the purposesspecified.

